Enjoyable Workouts

I believe that we did not adopt the endurance sport avocation to sit in our basements suffering on the trainer or the treadmill to pop out of our burrows like Punxutawney Phil at the first light of spring to take the racing season by storm.

I personally adopted this sport because I loved the idea of running on the beach, swimming in the ocean and biking up and down the coast and in the local mountains. I made the mistake early on in believing I needed to suffer through the training so I could do well at my races. NOW I demand much more and will happily sacrifice some of my goals to make my training as enjoyable as possible. (I never actually had to give up anything except my old bike trainer)

"I Challenge Everyone to find at least one workout a week through the winter where they are able to get outside for a workout and enjoy whatever the day as to offer"

A favorite workout or route surely provides some great motivation. This challenge is not about how tough someone is; rather it is about completing a workout and relishing every moment of it. I don't believe we should ever find ourselves dreading what we do to prepare to tackle our awesome goals.

This is an open challenge. It is NOT a competition, and the only winner here is you at the end of your workout when your mojo decides it wants more of what you just did. No need to respond to the challenge unless you want to share a particularly good workout with the group or maybe post a photo or two of your rave run, epic ride or awesome swim.

Here is the beach where I do a lot of my training just to get things started